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Klaus-Michael Kühne keen to step into stevedoring activities

The K+N Chief’s advance concerns the Hamburg-headquartered logistics company HHLA and its Bremen-based competitor Eurogate. His vision: Both players should merge the sooner the better,
creating a unified German stevedoring company that offers handling services from a single source at


Flying in relief supplies and volunteers to Haiti

On 14AUG21, an earthquake to the magnitude of 7.2 struck Haiti, causing devastation yet again to Caribbean tropical island that had suffered more than 250,000 deaths in the previous quake
just 11 years prior. The death toll has risen to


SNCF sells Ermewa

State-owned French railway and transport company, SNCF, will sell its railcar and tank container operating unit Ermewa. The transfer of ownership will take place in October, sources close
to the case confirmed to CargoForwarder Global. New proprietors will be the


EASA prescribes new rules for “preighter” ops

In recent months, there have been numerous images of passenger planes turned into freighters, displaying loads piled up to the cabin ceiling. Whether safety regulations were always
adhered to during these transports is doubtful, at least in some cases. In



LCCevolution – Lufthansa Cargo’s open-heart surgery

On the right, airfreight shipments are being handled; on the left, craftsmen are assembling the infrastructure for a new building. It is a strange duality of activities that is starting
to take place right now at Lufthansa Cargo’s logistics and


Exclusive – Frankfurt maps the cargo process from A to Z

On its quest to continuously improve resource efficiencies and handling quality at its airports, Fraport’s Airport Community App has been expanded to include cargo. Frankfurt is the first
of the Fraport airports to benefit from the new feature and, over